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2025 NIU Football Roster

46 CJ Wade

  • Height 6-3
  • Weight 239
  • Class Redshirt Freshman
  • Position Defensive End
  • Hometown Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  • High School Prairie

Biography

2024

  • Did not see any action during redshirt season.

HIGH SCHOOL 

Honors and Awards 

  • Two-year varsity letterwinner (2022,2023) 

  • Played defensive end and tight end at Prairie High School 

  • Named First Team All-Conference, All-County and All-Region (2023) 

  • Honorable Mention All-Conference as a junior (2022)  

  • Played in the OD All American Bowl  

  • Academic All-Conference and Academic All-Metro (2021, 2022,2023) 

Team Results/Record 

  • 2023: 7-4 state playoff quarterfinals 

  • 2022: 8-3 state playoff quarterfinals 

Academic and Club/Sport Involvement 

  • Volunteer at Stoney Point Retirement Home 

  • Also played Basketball  

  • Also earned Academic All-Conference and Academic All-Metro 

  • Earned the Seal of Bi-Literacy 


PERSONAL

  • Computer science major  

Statistics

Season:
2025

Season Statistics

Season Statistics

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Career Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 46

    2024Freshman

    Defensive End
    6'3" 230 lbs
    46
  • 46

    2025Redshirt Freshman

    Defensive End
    6'3" 239 lbs
    46